Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [adv] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Janet Roscoe had finished re-reading A Midsummer Night 's Dream , and felt just a little less certain now about her long-held view ( she had earlier been an actress ) that Mr Shakespeare was sometimes way below his best when it came to the writing of comedy . |
| 2 | Perhaps most famous today for its Racecourse , it was originally the Roman town of Lactodorum . |
| 3 | His own father had given him his creed for life — ‘ the best is only just good enough for you ’ — and he himself preached that doctrine until the day he died , in 1987 . |
| 4 | She would ring Julius at home , with messages that were only just important enough for her to justify ringing his private number . |
| 5 | However , Sheila Payne , from the Department of Psychology , University of Exeter , has discovered that women being treated for breast or ovarian cancer were much more anxious half-way through their treatment than they had been at the beginning . |
| 6 | These were Islam , Hinduism , Buddhism , Christianity and , since Bali was already so internationally attractive precisely for its rich blend of animism , the quickly invented category of " Hindu-Balinese " religion . |
| 7 | Second , any model that described the whole universe in detail would be much too complicated mathematically for us to be able to calculate exact predictions . |
| 8 | Some of its expansion plans backfired , including a subsidiary set up to recruit minorities — women and non-Americans — which was perhaps too far ahead of its time ; it folded after four years , having made heavy losses . |
| 9 | In the first place , actors never see all of the game and , even in the corner which they do see , they are not always transparent even to themselves . |
| 10 | The more experienced teachers , on the other hand , are generally more secure both in their competence and their status , but may have lost their fire . |
| 11 | An overhit forehand from Sampras who , despite offering a far more solid challenge against Forget than he had done against Leconte , was still not as consistent enough with his groundstrokes as one would have expected from someone who had become ATP Tour champion two weeks earlier , made it 15–0 . |
| 12 | The firm 's paying for a rented flat but it 's not really big enough for us and the children . ’ |
| 13 | Our two eight foot steel cutters , Vigilant and Valiant were now nearing the end of their useful life and were not really fast enough for our purposes . |
| 14 | The landlady was very kind and helpful , but the hotel was not really quiet enough for him . |
| 15 | Their ability to hover enables them to construct their tiny cups on sites that are not even big enough for them to perch on — two crossing stems , perhaps , or even the tip of a leaf . |
| 16 | You 're not even funny sometimes with your put-on snobbishness . " |
| 17 | Under it he was wearing a slate-blue suit in tussore , the cut , material and colour not quite masculine enough for his height and heavily muscled chest . |
| 18 | There are also little hints of other composers peeping through the odd snippet of theme , a chordal progression here and there , a rhythmic outline — often not quite obvious enough for you to put your finger on it . |
| 19 | Luce followed his lead , not yet clear enough in her own mind to try and provide any answers , or confide what she 'd been thinking . |
| 20 | However , as Michael Sandusky has remarked , the United States and Russia were not too far apart in their ideas on the future of Korea in the spring and summer of 1945 . |
| 21 | Not too bad here from what I 've seen . |
| 22 | ‘ She 's not very forthcoming always about what 's going on at the back of her mind , ’ he said after a time in a soft voice to Jo-Ann , ‘ but I can generally tell something about it from the way she moves her toes . |
| 23 | After three months of office Baldwin was not very happy either with his Cabinet or with the state of his party . |
| 24 | The only way I can think of , or I think as far as anyone else can think of , deciding whether it has in fact been important in speciation , is to look for pairs of closely related species which differ in some striking morphological trait , but are still sufficiently similar genetically for you to be able to carry out a genetic analysis , i.e. to cross them , to get offspring , to get F two 's and it 's then possible , it 's obviously not — I 'm not going to explain the details of the technique to you now — but it 's possible to work out whether the difference is due largely , or in part , to some single large gene , or whether it 's on the whole due to quite a lot of small ones . |
| 25 | When summer comes and I finally have to reluctantly discard my thermals , I knit myself a few cardigans just in case it is not hot enough for me — and come to think of it , our weather is hardly ever hot enough for me . |
| 26 | Seeing the mist that deepened the dark grey of her eyes , the pale translucent cheeks , both so beautiful now in their glowing copper setting , it was all Benedict could do not to snatch her back into the heat of his embrace , and force his way to that intimate deep caress , the thought of which now fired him with passionate yearning . |
| 27 | And you will pick up so much then to what 's going on . |
| 28 | Not only did her question underline how far communication had broken down between us but also how little either of us was able to meet the other 's needs . |
| 29 | He was probably very frustrated too as his bride , who had little time to be with him , was struggling to keep two homes running . |
| 30 | I mean I 've heard representatives for County Council th this week saying that er as far as they were concerned th the standards were n't sufficiently low yet for them t to take action . |